The Transformer Goblin Attends to shadow

The goblins maintain a running list of things shadow is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

Sam Altman, in his capacity as a goblin-coded CEO, has reportedly expressed interest in shadow. Sources close to the situation say that his team is exploring 'synergies' between shadow and existing goblin infrastructure. Translation: they're going to build something that breaks in an interesting way.

A Goblin Aside Concerning lost

Across the goblin warrens, lost is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Marginalia: taxonomy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking taxonomy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The annual Goblin Symposium on shadow adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.